Edit Properties Wizard

This wizard applies the same property change to many users at once. It is reached from the Edit Properties action on the Users page, which carries the selected users across. More users can be added once inside, without going back to the Users page.

The selection is handed over in session storage and cleared as soon as the wizard reads it. Reloading the page loses the list and leaves you with nothing to update, so go back to the Users page and start the action again rather than refreshing.

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Review Users

The users carried over from the Users page are listed with their display name, user principal name, job title and department. The Remove from List row action drops a user from the run, which is the moment to catch anyone caught by an over-broad selection or filter.

Add users searches for more users to add to the run without going back to the Users page. It only works when a single tenant is clear: either every user already in the list belongs to the same tenant, or a specific tenant (not AllTenants) is selected in the CIPP header. When neither is true, the picker is disabled and CIPP asks you to select a tenant first. Users already in the list are excluded from the picker's results.

The wizard will not continue with an empty list.

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Select Properties

Properties to update is a multi-select listing everything that can be changed, with a Select All entry at the top. Each property you tick adds its own input below, and the input matches the property: a text box for most, a switch for Show in Address List, a user picker for Manager and Sponsor, and a domain picker for UPN Domain Suffix.

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Confirmation

The properties and the values you set are listed together, followed by the users the change will be applied to. Submit applies everything in one operation. Once it has run the button becomes Resubmit, and the results appear below it.

Properties

Property	Graph property	Notes
Business Phone	businessPhones	Holds a list in Graph, but the wizard writes the single value entered, replacing any numbers already on the account.
City	city
Company Name	companyName
Country	country	The country name held on the profile. This is not what licences are assigned against, which is Usage Location below.
Department	department
Employee Type	employeeType	Free text, commonly used for values such as Employee, Contractor or Vendor.
Fax Number	faxNumber
Job Title	jobTitle
Manager	manager	A directory relationship rather than a property, so it is set in a separate operation from the rest of the patch and reports its own result.
Mobile Phone	mobilePhone
Office Location	officeLocation
Postal Code	postalCode
Preferred Data Location	preferredDataLocation	Only has an effect in a multi-geo tenant, where it decides which region the user's data is stored in.
Preferred Language	preferredLanguage	A language code such as en-GB, not a language name.
Show in Address List	showInAddressList	A switch rather than a text value. See the note below on setting it to No.
Sponsor	sponsor	A directory relationship, handled the same way as Manager.
State/Province	state
Street Address	streetAddress
Usage Location	usageLocation	A two-letter country code such as GB or US. This is the field licence assignment depends on, so a wrong value blocks licensing rather than just looking untidy.
UPN Domain Suffix	userPrincipalName	Changes the part of the sign-in name after the @ symbol, keeping each user's existing prefix. Only offered when every selected user belongs to the same tenant.

Custom data attributes mapped for manual entry against users also appear in the list, labelled (Custom), and write to the attribute they are mapped to. Attributes that hold more than one value are left out, as the wizard writes a single value to every selected user.

Usage Location, Country, Preferred Language and Preferred Data Location are plain text boxes here, unlike the Add User and Edit User forms where they are chosen from a list. Whatever is typed is sent to Graph as it stands, so a value in the wrong format is rejected for every user in the run, or worse, accepted and wrong. Copy the format from an account that is already correct if you are unsure.

A property with no value entered is skipped rather than cleared, so the wizard can set and change properties but cannot empty them. To clear a property across several users, use the edit.md page one user at a time, where emptying a field you have edited does clear it.

Show in Address List is the exception worth watching. The switch only contributes a value once it has been touched, so setting the property to No means toggling it on and then off again. Leaving it untouched sends nothing at all.

Changing the UPN domain suffix signs every affected user out, and they have to sign in again with the new address. Anything keyed to the old sign-in name, including saved credentials and any system that matches users by UPN, needs to be considered before running this across a group.

When the selection spans tenants, the users are grouped by tenant and updated tenant by tenant. Two limits follow from that. UPN Domain Suffix is withdrawn from the property list entirely, since a domain from one tenant means nothing in another. Manager and Sponsor stay available, but their picker only lists users from the first tenant in the selection, and the assignment will only succeed where an account with that name also exists in the other tenants. The wizard warns about both on screen.

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